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AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
[July 4.]
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No. 1.
India Office to Foreign Office.-(Received July 4)
THE Under-Secretary of State for India presents his compliments to the Under- Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and, by direction of the Marquess of Houghton, forwards herewith, for the information of the Secretary of State, copy of enclosures in a letter from the Foreign Sectretary to the Government of India, dated the 8th June, 1911, relative to a Kachin rising against the Chinese.
India Office, July 3, 1911.
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(Telegraphic.) P.
Enclosure in No. 1.
Government of Burmah to Government of India.
June 5, 1911.
REPORTS have been received from the Bhamo district and from the consul at Tengyuch of a serious Kachin rising in Chinese territory in vicinity of the frontier. The consul states that, owing to ill-timed interference of a small party of troops at Shanmulungpa, at the boundary of Nautieu and Lungchuan and Mengmao districts near frontier, some Kachins, said to number over 1,000, have stockaded themselves in hills in order to avoid punitive measures. The Tengyueh Ting was proceeding with troops against them, but consul learns that Tengyuch Ting has been recalled, and military operations have been countermanded by telegraphic orders from Viceroy of Yunnan.
The Taungok of Lweje in Bhamo district reports that a general rising against Chinese Government of Kachins cast of Mungwan in Chinese territory is imminent, owing to salt and opium restrictions. He adds that, in an engagement which took place about the 18th May, the Chinese killed four Kachins, while Chinese casualties were nine killed and seventeen rifles taken by Kachins. Instructions are being sent to deputy commissioner, Bliamo, to take measures to prevent participation in the disturbance by Kachins on our side of frontier,
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